Victorian Marriage and Open Source

"Maybe this is a good thing. I'm certainly a fan of commercial
open source, as I believe that the more money developers can make
from open source development, the more of such development there
will be. But I wonder if the 'marital offer' corporations and
capital makes to the development community is sometimes a bit crass
and, well, material..."

Building vs. Buying Open Source Communities

"Leaving aside the question as to whether one actually can buy
community (see my separate post), I don't believe it's an easy task
under the best of circumstances, for the same reason that most
acquisitions fail to deliver their promised benefits. Combining
corporate/community cultures is tremendously difficult. Combining
the business models these entail is only slightly less so.

"I'm an Arsenal supporter. I despise Chelsea. Part of the reason
I dislike Chelsea is that it's clearly a 'buy community' kind of
soccer (football) club. I think the Russian mafia (ahem, Roman
Abromovich) has injected nearly $500 million into the club, buying
up an immensely deep bench of talented players..."